Heat-shrinkable envelope

US5698280A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• RXS Kabelgarnituren GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Ulrich Affolderbach · Wuppertal, DE
• Andreas Kupczyk · Hagen, DE
• Hans-Juergen Meltsch · Schwerte, DE
• Sigrid Rose · Wetter, DE
• Wolfgang Schulte · Monheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 22, 1996
• Grant date: Dec 16, 1997
• Expiry date: Nov 22, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T442/3179
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A heat-shrinkable envelope of at least one shrinkable surface layer and a reinforcing insert has the reinforcing insert formed of a grid of plastic, and the grid is shrinkable in the shrink direction of the shrinkable layer.